[Chimera-users] SASA vs. MSA

[Nikolay Igorovich Rodionov]

FYI, I used the same probe radius for both calculations and set the cut off to zero.

-----Original Message-----
From: Elaine Meng [mailto:meng at cgl.ucsf.edu] 
Sent: Sunday, August 05, 2012 12:43 PM
To: Nikolay Igorovich Rodionov
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Subject: Re: [Chimera-users] SASA vs. MSA


On Aug 5, 2012, at 9:29 AM, Elaine Meng wrote:

> However, if you are looking at contributions to SES and SAS >N square angstroms where N>0, because the SAS is farther out from the atomic centers and thus larger in magnitude, that will select more atoms for SAS.
> 

Actually it depends on the value of N. The statement above applies when N is reasonably large, ~15 square angstroms or greater.
Elaine